Graphical Environment Manager

The Graphical Environment Manager (GEM) was an operating environment created by Digital Research, Inc. (DRI) for use with the DOS operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.

GEM is known primarily as the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Atari ST series of computers, and was also supplied with a series of IBM PC-compatible computers from Amstrad. It also was available for standard IBM PC, at the time when the 6 MHz IBM PC AT (and the very concept of a GUI) was brand new. It was the core for a small number of DOS programs, the most notable being Ventura Publisher. It was ported to a number of other computers that previously lacked graphical interfaces, but never gained popularity on those platforms. DRI also produced FlexGem for their FlexOS real-time operating system.

History

GSX

GEM started life at DRI as a more general purpose graphics library known as GSX (Graphics System eXtension), written by a team led by Don Heiskell. Lee Lorenzen (at Graphic Software Systems, Inc.) who had recently left Xerox PARC (birthplace of the GUI) wrote much of the code. GSX was essentially a DRI-specific implementation of the GKS graphics standard proposed in the late 1970s. GSX was intended to allow DRI to write graphics programs (charting, etc.) for any of the platforms CP/M-80, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS (NEC APC-III) would run on, a task that would otherwise require considerable effort to port due to the large differences in graphics hardware (and concepts) between the various systems of that era.

ACC

ACC most often refers to:

  • Air Canada Centre, home of the Toronto Raptors (NBA) and Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL)
  • Atlantic Coast Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference located in the United States
  • Association of Corporate Counsel, a global organization serving attorneys who practice in corporate law departments
  • American College of Cardiology, A US-based nonprofit medical association that bestows credentials upon cardiovascular specialists
  • American Chemistry Council, an industry trade association for American chemical companies
  • Air Combat Command, a major command of the US Air Force headquartered at Langley Air Force Base
  • ACC may also refer to:

    Business

  • ACC Limited, an Indian cement manufacturer
  • ACCBank, an Irish commercial bank
  • American Campus Communities, a private student housing provider
  • American Chemistry Council, an industry trade association for American chemical companies
  • American Credit Corporation, renamed Barclays American
  • Associated Co-operative Creameries, or one of its successors:
  • ACC (company)

    ACC Limited (Formerly The Associated Cement Companies Limited) one of the largest producers of cement in India. It's registered office is called Cement House. It is located on Maharishi Karve Road, Mumbai. The stock price of company contributes in calculating BSE Sensex.

    The management control of company was taken over by Swiss cement major Holcim in 2004. On 1 September 2006 the name of The Associated Cement Companies Limited was changed to ACC Limited. The company is only cement company to get Superbrand status in India.

    History

    In 1936 ten cement companies belonging to Tatas, Khataus, Killick Nixon and F E Dinshaw groups merged to form a single entity, The Associated Cement Companies. Sir Nowroji B Saklatvala was the first chairman of ACC. The first board of directors had some prominent industrialists – J R D Tata, Ambalal Sarabhai, Walchand Hirachand, Dharamsey Khatau, Sir Akbar Hydari, Nawab Salar Jung Bahadur and Sir Homy Mody.

    References

    ACC Limited is India’s foremost cement manufacturer with a countrywide network of factories and marketing offices. Established in 1936, ACC has been a pioneer and trend-setter in cement and concrete technology. Among the first companies in India to include commitment to environment protection as a corporate objective, ACC has won accolades for environment friendly measures taken at its plants and mines, and has also been felicitated for its acts of good corporate citizenship.

    Reset

    Reset may refer to

    Music

  • Reset Records, a British record company
  • Reset (Norwegian band), a Norwegian eurodance band
  • Reset (Canadian band), a French-Canadian punk band that formed in 1993 in Montreal, Quebec
  • Reset (Hungarian dj and producer)
  • "Reset" (song), a song by Outkast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
  • Albums and EPs

  • Reset (Tina Arena album), 2013 album by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena
  • Reset (Atari Teenage Riot album), 2014 album by Atari Teenage Riot
  • Reset (Funky album), 2011
  • Reset (Flying Lotus EP), 2007
  • Reset (Mutemath EP), 2006
  • Reset (Set Your Goals EP), an EP released in 2006 on Eulogy Records
  • Peace Orchestra: Reset, an album by the electronic group Peace Orchestra
  • Other uses

  • Reset (computing), to clear any pending errors or events and bring a system to normal condition or initial state
  • Reset, the act of rebooting a computer
  • Reset (finance), a generic concept in the financial markets, meaning the determination and recording of a reference rate
  • Reset (computing)

    In a computer or data transmission system, a reset clears any pending errors or events and brings a system to normal condition or an initial state, usually in a controlled manner. It is usually done in response to an error condition when it is impossible or undesirable for a processing activity to proceed and all error recovery mechanisms fail. A computer storage program would normally perform a "reset" if a command times out and error recovery schemes like retry or abort also fail.

    Most computers have a reset line that brings the device into the startup state and is active for a short time after powering on. For example, in the x86 architecture, asserting the RESET line halts the CPU; this is done after the system is switched on and before the power supply has asserted "power good" to indicate that it is ready to supply stable voltages at sufficient power levels. Reset places less stress on the hardware than power cycling, as the power is not removed. Many computers, especially older models, have user accessible "reset" buttons that assert the reset line to facilitate a system reboot in a way that cannot be trapped (i.e. prevented) by the operating system. Out-of-band management also frequently provides the possibility to reset the remote system in this way.

    Reset (Tina Arena album)

    Reset is the tenth studio album released by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena on 18 October 2013. The first single, "You Set Fire to My Life" was released on 26 September 2013. Despite not being released as a single, "Only Lonely" charted in the top 50 in late November due to being used in an advertisement for the Australian soap opera Home and Away. "Reset All" was released as the second official single on 18 December. Reset is Arena's sixth top 10 album in Australia. Reset was released in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2014.

    Track listing

    Singles

    "You Set Fire to My Life" was released at the first single in September 2013 and peaked at 38. "Reset All" was released as the second single and "Love You Less" was announced as the third single in March 2014, but did not eventuate. "Still Running" was released as the third single in August 2014. The video clip was filmed in Rome and released in July.

    In addition to the official singles, "Only Lonely" charted at 32 and gained national interest after it was used in a commercial for the 2013 finale of Channel 7's Home and Away as well as at the 2014 Logie Awards.

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